The Mid-American Conference might not have to wait very long to replace the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl.

According to a report by AL.com's Jon Solomon, ESPN is currently engaged in "intensive talks" with the city of Montgomery for the rights to stage a new bowl game that would pit a MAC team against a Sun Belt Conference opponent.

The game would reportedly begin in 2014 and be played in the recently-renovated Crampton Bowl, a 25,000-seat outdoor stadium located in downtown Montgomery.

With the discontinuation of the Pizza Bowl, which was known as the Motor City Bowl until 2009 and has featured a MAC team annually since its inception in 1997, after this year, the conference is left with just two tie-in postseason games — The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl and the GoDaddy.com bowl, which is also played in Alabama.

MAC commissioner Dr. Jon Steinbrecher had previously said that the conference was looking into the creation of as many as three new bowl games for MAC teams.

The University of Massachusetts football team is bowl-eligble for the first time starting in 2013.